Problem: chain rolling off bow roller!

[wiersma67]

My anchor chain keeps rolling off the bow roller when hauling in the anchor. This is due to a bad design in that the jaws do not extend above the roller.

I am thinking about adding cheeks to the top of the existing jaws or weld a stainless steel bar on the jaws to keep the chain in.

Has anyone done such a modification, any ideas?

Thanks

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[snowleopard]

totally amazed at how bad ALL anchor roller designs are. they seem to assume that the chain will always come in straight over the bow and the boat will never sheer off to one side as you haul in.

i spend 90% of anchor hoisting time trying to get the boat straight so i can get a few more feet of chain in without it running off to one side and jamming against the cheeks.

i am now drawing up a design for a new roller with wide curved cheeks that will feed the chain in from almost any angle. i even thought about side rollers.

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[maxi]

Yes, it's been successfully done by very very many boatowners. Make the cheeks high enough to take a drop-nosed pin over the chain for those exciting little moments when the chain rode goes up rather than down ! & don't forget that you need nice smooth edges to avoid damage to the rode. Should cost well under a ton.

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[Sea Devil]

My bow rollers have a stainless hoop - upside down U with bolts through the cheeks of the roller - should be able to get one made up easily and cheaply. The U needs to be fairly tall so as not to foul the anchor shaft when it swings in..

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[westhinder]

You might even do away with the roller. The Rival 34 does not have one, but does have wide, high cheeks with a removable pin across them. Never had a problem.



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[Courageous]

Not experienced this before but just a thought - a large stainless shackle could be fashioned to do the job if you drill a hole in each cheek. Dispense with the shackle pin and bolt through the cheeks...... All sounds terribly painful to the warped imagination!

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[jfm]

Best answer is weld on extensions to cheeks, plus a pin thru. But you might be able to bodge it by just fitting a smaller dia roller? Or drilling new holes for the existing roller pin lower down the cheeks, so as to lower the roller relative to the cheeks

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[ShipsWoofy]

Mine is a home made jobbie, but has rollers on the cheeks, this allows the chain / rode to be pulled in from an angle, very helpful on a cat which can be skitterish at anchor.

It works quite well, although I am looking to put a top plate on to stop the rode popping off which has happened occasionally.

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